About Robert

Robert Farris-Olsen built his educational basis around environmental learn about and the regulation. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and Chemistry from Whitman College in 2006. He went directly to the University of Montana School of Law, where he finished his J.D. in 2011 and studied Environmental and Natural Resources Law.

The early a part of his legal career gave him exposure to both appellate work and public interest practice. In 2011 he served as a regulation clerk to the Montana Supreme Court, a knowledge that offered near work on legal opinion drafting and the mechanics of state-level appellate procedure. The following year he joined the Montana Legal Services Association as a staff lawyer in its Foreclosure Assistance Program, representing homeowners and advising clients facing housing instability.

In 2013 he entered private practice as an associate at Morrison, Sherwood, Wilson & Deola PLLP. That pass brought him right into a firm placing where he may perhaps apply trial experience and the practical skills developed in public-interest work. He has maintained his club within the Montana Trial Lawyers Association since 2013, remaining engaged with an expert network focused on litigation practice and related developments in state regulation.

Colleagues describe Farris-Olsen as methodical in courtroom preparation and measured in client counsel. His background combines environmental training and hands-on foreclosure assistance, a mixture that informs how he strategies civil disputes and regulatory problems. He brings appellate experience to trials and proceedings, favoring clear legal arguments and awareness to procedural element.

He has treated matters that contact on environmental and herbal resource topics, and he has worked on instances involving housing and consumer protections through his foreclosure software work. His practice has additionally concerned traditional legal proceedings duties conventional of an affiliate litigating in state courts.

Today he practices at Morrison, Sherwood, Wilson & Deola PLLP, where his work facilities on legal proceedings that draws on his environmental law education and his knowledge representing clients in housing-associated matters.

Education

University of Montana School of Law

J.D. (2011) | Environmental and Natural Resources Law

2008

Whitman College

B.A. (2006) | Environmental Studies - Chemistry

2002

Languages

Spanish (Written)

Experience

Associate

Morrison, Sherwood Wilson & Deola, PLLP
2013

Staff Lawyer - Foreclosure Assistance Program

Montana Legal Services Association
2012

Law Clerk

Montana Supreme Court
2011

Accepted Jurisdictions

Montana

Professional Associations

Montana Trial Lawyers Association

has membership 2013 - Current

Office Locations

Main Office

 401 N. Last Chance Gulch P.O. Box 557 Helena MT 59624